Call to Commitment : The Story of the Church of the Saviour, Washington, D.C.

Religion & Spirituality

Elizabeth O'Connor

Christian Books & Bibles

Harper Row Publishers

Calling for the creation of a viable Christian community, O'Connor's impassioned letters consider many of the complex issues facing Christians today, including leadership, authority, separation, dependence, independence, and the role of money in the Christian community

Letters to scattered pilgrims

Harper&Row

Real community cannot exist on its own; it can exist only in relationship to the world. Anyone wanting the kind of community that seeks to engage and be engaged by society will find helpful guidance in these stories and teachings. First published in 1976, The New Community is relevant still today. “The painful, fearful, wonderful message of the modern world,” Elizabeth O’Connor writes, “is that we are members one of the other, and that we cannot live if we are not in communion with each other.”   Drawing upon her experiences as a member of The Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC, in the years before it became a “scattered church” of multiple small faith communities, Elizabeth O’Connor writes of events in the church’s life and neighborhood almost as parables. Through stories of loss and redemption, struggle and movement, she illustrates what it looks like when ordinary people try to connect meaningfully with others and work together for change.   Anyone longing for a more compassionate and just society, to see it manifest here and now, will find in The New Community a compelling call to find a few others and begin to build it in tangible ways, together.  ===== Elizabeth O’Connor was an early member of The Church of the Saviour and wrote several books about the church’s life, including Call to Commitment; Journey Inward, Journey Outward; Our Many Selves; Cry Pain, Cry Hope; Search for Silence; and Servant Leaders, Servant Structures.

The new community

Eighth Day of Creation

Literature & Fiction

Roc+

Cry pain, cry hope: Thresholds to purpose

Word Books

Cry Pain, Cry Hope

Word Pub.

According to the author, the one journey that ultimately matters is the journey into the stillness within oneself. Many persons have difficulty with silence because their lives are filled with unfaced suffering-suffering that has to be worked through in order to hear within the address of God. Meditation and confession are ways of firmly establishing in consciousness, and thus in the storehouse of the brain, other facts that will help the new in us do battle with the old. Confession is essential to the quieting of the mind and the silence of prayer in which we come to know the self that is made in the image of God. The practice of meditation can give us a feeling of separation from what we are observing in ourselves. The gate is then opened for the comprehending that transforms feelings, or that takes them and returns them to us as manageable forces. There are two ways to read this book. One is to read it simply for the enrichment and inspiration of being in touch with writers who confirm one's own intimations of a Kingdom within. The other choice is to read the book slowly, meditatively, and to follow the suggested exercises.

Search for Silence

Word, Incorporated

Whale Fall

Picador

Cry Pain, Cry Hope: Thresholds to Purpose

Potters House

An exposition on the nature and purpose of the Church

Call to Commitment: An Attempt to Embody the Essence of Church

Servant Leadership Press

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Books by Elizabeth O'Connor